Without Limits Quotes

Without Limits is a television program that first aired in 1970 . Without Limits ended its run in 1970.

It features Tom Cruise as producer, Randy Miller (composer) in charge of musical score, and Conrad L. Hall as head of cinematography.

Without Limits is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Without Limits is 117 minutes long. Without Limits is distributed by Warner Bros..

The cast includes: Billy Crudup as Steve Prefontaine, Donald Sutherland as Bill Bowerman, and Monica Potter as Mary Marckx.

Without Limits Quotes

Billy Crudup as Steve Prefontaine

• (Billy Crudup) "It's the hardest thing in the world to believe in something, if you do it's a miracle."

• (Billy Crudup) "I'd like to work it out so that at the end, it's a pure guts race. If it is, I'm the only one who can win it."

• (Billy Crudup) "Bill, has it ever occurred to you that there's such a thing as overcoaching?"
• (Donald Sutherland) "Yeah -- I'm against it."

• (Billy Crudup) "I can endure more pain than anyone you've ever met. That's why I can beat anyone I've ever met."

Monica Potter as Mary Marckx

• (Monica Potter) "You ran great in Munich."
• (Billy Crudup) "No, Viren ran great, I was fourth."

Donald Sutherland as Bill Bowerman

• (Donald Sutherland) "George Young is in town."
• (Billy Crudup) "So?"
• (Donald Sutherland) "So, he holds the world record in the two mile."
• (Billy Crudup) "Well we're running the 5,000 at the trials, Bill. What -- you don't think I can beat George Young?"
• (Donald Sutherland) "He's got one hell of a finishing kick. Now you're not gonna run away from him -- flat out."
• (Billy Crudup) "Ah s***, we're back to front running again?"
• (Donald Sutherland) "Nothing would please George Young more -- or the crowd. You'd be giving the crown the performance they want and him the one he expects."
• (Billy Crudup) "Well you could call a race any god**** you want, but I wouldn't call it a performance."
• (Donald Sutherland) "What would you call it?"
• (Billy Crudup) "A work of art."
• (Donald Sutherland) "If you can't beat George Young, you can't win in Munich. Beating George Young is gonna take some kind of time."
• (Billy Crudup) "O.K -- what kind of time?"
• (Billy Crudup) "13:23? 13:23? That's seven seconds faster than the American record, MY American record."
• (Donald Sutherland) "Your American record."
• (Billy Crudup) "How do I do that?"
• (Donald Sutherland) "You wear him out. Decending series -- negative splits."
• (Donald Sutherland) "Slowly, you go a little faster than he thinks your going. By the time he figures it out, he won't have enough left to hurt you."

• (Donald Sutherland) "Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: Life."

• (Donald Sutherland) "All my life, man and boy, I've operated under the assumption that the main idea in running was to win the race. Naturally, when I became a coach I tried to teach people how to do that. Tried to teach Pre how to do that. Tried like hell to teach Pre to do that. And Pre taught me. Taught me I was wrong. Pre, you see, was troubled by knowing that a mediocre effort can win a race and a magnificent effort can lose one. Winning a race wouldn't necessarily demand that he give it everything he had from start to finish. He never ran any other way. I tried to get him to, God knows I tried -- but -- Pre was stubborn. He insisted on holding himself to a higher standard than victory. 'A race is a work of art'; that's what he said, that's what he believed and he was out to make it one every step of the way."
• (Donald Sutherland) "Of course he wanted to win. Those who saw him compete and those who competed against him were never in any doubt how much he wanted to win. But how he won mattered to him more. Pre thought I was a hard case. But he finally got it through my head that the real purpose of running isn't to win a race. It's to test to the limits of the human heart. That he did -- Nobody did it more often. Nobody did it better."

• (Donald Sutherland) "Know what your problem is, Pre? Vanity."
• (Billy Crudup) "Vanity?"
• (Donald Sutherland) "Yes, vanity, Pre. Your belief that you have no talent is the ultimate vanity. If you have no talent then you have no limits, it's all an act of will. Your heart can probably pump more blood than anyone else's on earth, and that takes talent. The bones in your feet are so strong, it'd take a sledgehammer to break 'em. Be thankful for your limits, Pre, they're about as limitless as they get in this life."

• (Donald Sutherland) "For the time being, let's not have you working out with the team. You'll be facing Viren all over again at the Montreal Olympics. I don't want you racing anyone now. I just want you running. You have to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face -- Steve Prefontaine."

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